ALPHA'S REGRET, QUEEN'S REVENGE
The guardian bowed again, deeper this time.
I didn’t know what to say; none of us did. The weight of it all was settling on our shoulders, thick and suffocating.
The sky above us looked calm, but it didn’t feel calm. It felt… wrong, like a storm was coiled above the clouds, waiting.
Then the wolf’s ears twitched.
Its gaze snapped toward the castle.
“She’s waking up.”
A wind tore through the clearing, sudden and fierce; trees bowed, and just as quickly as it had come, the Guardian vanished – no trail, no sound, just gone.